Besides, the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect was not one of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea's Vassal Forces, and a vast distance separated them.
The Nine Sons of the Endless Sea were also under that Immortal's close watch. They hardly dared leave the Southern Endless Sea to make waves elsewhere.
As the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect's Inner Sect Grand Elder, Qi Zhentian had no reason to act overly humble before this Heavenly Pill Sect Dao Seed.
And as the saying went, even a mighty dragon could not bully the local snake—let alone the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea, an old dragon with one foot in the grave, barely breathing as it struggled to survive.
More than a hundred thousand years was an exceedingly long time for a cultivator of any realm.
Over that span, the situation in the Endless Sea had changed beyond recognition.
"The waves behind drive the waves ahead, and the waves ahead die on the shore!"
The Nine Sons of the Endless Sea were like those waves washed up dead on the shore. With eight Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Powerhouses propping them up, they still received a measure of respect when they ventured out.
And so long as no interests were at stake, plenty of factions were willing to greet them with smiles and offer a few words of praise.
But if they pushed their luck and insisted on putting on airs as the wave ahead, they would likely achieve nothing except the loss of their last scrap of face in the Endless Sea.
As for angering them so thoroughly that they flew into a rage and overturned the table everyone ate at?
They should not forget that the Immortal who had crushed the Tianyan Sect with a single slap was still stationed in the Endless Sea.
If they